Chinese-Craft-Umbrella

The quintessentially Chinese umbrella has two types-distinguish by the material: silk or paper.Silk umbrellas are the most expensive and the most exquisite, but also the most difficult to fashion and to maintain. Paper umbrellas are easier to fashion, they can be treated with oil to make them impermeable, or water resistant, and they lend themselves admirably to artistic decoration.Most paper umbrellas produced today are made impermeable with glutinous tung oil (aka Chinawood oil,from the euphorbiaceous tree, leurites fordii, found throughout central Asia).